Cave Dwellers FinallyGet Critical Habitat
WASHINGTON (CN) - It took 12 years, and a trip to federal court, but nine species of endangered cave dwelling invertebrates have been given just over 4,000 acres of critical habitat for recovery,...
View ArticlePilot Terrorist Vetting Program Is Adopted
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Agency for International Development adopted a pilot program to make sure its assistance does not get diverted to terrorist organizations or their supporters.
View ArticleAnti-Dumping Duties Conformed to WTO Rates
WASHINGTON (CN) - The International Trade Administration is changing the way it calculates anti-dumping duties applied to imported commodities to conform to World Trade Organization standards.
View ArticleTrade Agency Proposes Adoption of Volcker Rule
WASHINGTON (CN) - The Commodity Futures Trading Commission plans to adopt new rules to implement Section 619 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
View ArticleRecall Election Looks Likely in Wisconsin
MADISON, Wisc. (CN) - A judge denied Gov. Scott Walker's second request for more time to review signatures on his recall petitions, leaving a Feb. 27 deadline in place.
View ArticleFeds Get 10 Mortgage Fraud Convictions
DALLAS (CN) - Four people were convicted in a $20.5 million mortgage fraud run by former Dallas Cowboys linebacker Eugene Lockhart, bringing the number of convictions and guilty pleas in the...
View ArticleFeds Say Lender Took Bank for $2 Million
DALLAS (CN) - Federal prosecutors accused the owner of an El Paso-based consumer lender with defrauding a Texas bank of $2 million.
View ArticleTenants Blame Landlord for Seven-Alarm Fire
MANHATTAN (CN) - Landlords of Lower East Side tenements ignored rotting walls and exposed wiring that sparked a seven-alarm fire that destroyed three buildings in 2010, the victims claim in New...
View ArticleDirty Doings Alleged in Cell Tower Battle
DALLAS (CN) - A small cell tower company claims in Federal Court that $2.5 billion behemoth American Tower Corp. uses illegal tactics in negotiating with landowners for cell tower sites in the...
View ArticleMan Claims School Cop Went Wild
HOUSTON (CN) - A U.S. citizen claims a policeman beat and kicked him, shouting, "You are an illegal alien!" during a minor traffic stop, and that other officers hogtied, choked and beat him in...
View ArticleDouble Dipper and Illegal, Feds Say
HOUSTON (CN) - An illegal immigrant who got more than $100,000 in Social Security benefits by falsely claiming he was unemployed was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison.
View ArticleExxon Tries to Cram Genie Back into Bottle
NEW ORLEANS (CN) - ExxonMobil demands that a law firm return a document which Exxon claims attorneys are trying to use as evidence that the oil company deliberately withheld air sample data in...
View ArticleBrokers Accused of 'Targeting' the Elderly
BROOKLYN (CN) - A federal class action accuses David Lerner Associates of "targeting unsophisticated and elderly customers" to sell more than $300 million of a $2 billion real estate investment...
View ArticleStanford Receiver Sues 2 Law Firms for $1.8B
DALLAS (CN) - The receiver for Allen Stanford's alleged $7 billion Ponzi scheme claims two Louisiana law firms helped Stanford misappropriate more than $1.8 billion, by giving false opinions to...
View ArticleJudge Slaps School for Blocking Gay Websites
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (CN) - A federal judge ordered a central Missouri school district to stop using Internet filtering software that blocks access to gay, lesbian and transgender issue-related websites.
View ArticleState Funding Sought for Religious Schools
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (CN) - A Missouri state senator says religious groups should be eligible for state funding to operate schools.
View ArticleRetirees Claim Sneaky Exec Zapped Them
SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - A retired couple claim in Federal Court that a sneaky business executive took control of their small radio antenna company, secretly built their products in Chinese factories...
View ArticleFeds Arrest Alleged Inside Trader
MANHATTAN (CN) - Federal authorities arrested the president of Portland, Ore.-based Broadband Research, an investment research firm, and accused him of inside-trading conspiracy.
View ArticleTech Patents
WILMINGTON, Del. - Pragmatus claims Research in Motion's mobile phones and Playbook tablets violate four of its patents.
View ArticleHorny Goat Weed
MINNEAPOLIS - A vending machine supplier claims a franchisee stocked its machines with unapproved items, including "'Horny Goat Weed,' an herbal aphrodisiac," in Federal Court.
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